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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
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隋 A VERY RARE LARGE GILT-BRONZE STANDING
FIGURE OF BODHISATTVA
鎏金銅
SUI DYNASTY (581-618)

菩薩 The slender figure is finely cast and shown standing in tribhanga with two pendent
pierced tabs at the base, the right hand is raised in abhayamudra, and the left holding
a branch. The facial features are finely modelled with downcast eyes and wide lips to
立像 give a contemplative expression, the hair swept-up in a topknot behind an elaborate
headdress fastened with ribbons falling at both sides of the shoulders. The pendulous
ears are set with spherical earrings, and the body adorned with a double-chained
necklace notched at intervals. The detachable aureole is decorated with a lotus flower
surrounded by beaded concentric circles and jagged flames with seven floating
Amitabha seated on lotus thrones.
13 ¾ in. (35.1 cm.) overall height, wumu stand
HK$8,000,000-12,000,000 US$1,100,000-1,500,000

PROVENANCE
An Asian private collection, acquired in the mid-1990s
EXHIBITED
The Shoto Museum of Art, Chinese Treasures from the Chang Foundation, Shibuya, 2001,
Catalogue, no. 87

LITERATURE
Jin Shen, Haiwai ji Gangtai cang lidai foxiang: zhenpin jinian fujian, Shanxi, 2007, p. 479

來源
亞洲私人珍藏，約 1990 年代中期入藏
展覽
涉谷區立松濤美術館，《中国美術の精華：台北．鴻禧美術館所藏品展》，
涉谷，2001 年，圖錄圖版 87 號
著錄
金申，《海外及港台藏歷代佛像：珍品紀年圖鑑》，山西，2007 年，頁 479

26 Contemplating The Divine – Fine Buddhist Art 正觀自在 — 佛教藝術精品